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You're not trapped, you're as free as can be from where I'm looking at you. When I was your age I quit my very secure job at a bank to go on all kinds of weird adventures, working free-lance, going hungry for weeks, suddenly flush with cash from a payment, got my driving license, started to go on ever longer and ever more unplanned trips. In short, I embraced risk in all kinds of ways and found that - to my surprise - the people that tried to hold me back from doing this were wrong. Tomorrow always took care of itself somehow, as long as you have skills you'll have a place somewhere and some food in your stomach and every time you move to a new viewpoint you become slightly richer (but maybe not in a material sense, but that's fine until that need arrives). Finally, when I was 27 and my first child arrived that phase ended, then it very much mattered if there was money on the table and life suddenly changed from being relatively free to being quite structured with a very high penalty on any inability to provide. I made a pretty conscious decision to stop following just what interested me but to chase the buck and with the knowledge gained in the preceding years that was quite easy. Go see the world while the current phase lasts, sooner or later life will really trap you (compared to your situation atm) and then you're on the hook for many years before you will have some of this freedom back again. By then your body will be one that you can't compare to today (and I'm saying that as a reasonably fit person of 50+), your time will be spoken for at some regular interval and so on. The right time to strike out into the world is now, don't worry overly about how you'll finance any or all of this, a few hundred in savings would be enough to broaden your horizon tremendously and that alone will give you an advantage over those that are rooted to their hometown. This, by the way is what fuels my 'journeyman' projects that I try to do each year now, they're a link back to my past, basically not a new thing but a continuation. It's been incredibly rewarding to meet all these new people and to help them to achieve their dreams and contribute a little bit to solving their problems even if not a single cent ever changed hands. I very much look forward to doing another round of these this coming summer. |